Hymnal: Christian Psalms and Hymns
Date: 1839
Compiler: Walter Scott and Silas Leonard
Publisher/Printer: A S Tilden
First Line: Farewell dear friends I must be gone
Topic: <no topic given>
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: LM
Tune:
Hymn Number: 666
Page Number: 360, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsFAREWELL, dear friends, I must be gone,
I have no home or stay with you;
I'll take the word and travel on,
Till I a better world can view.
Farewell, farewell, farewell,
My loving friends, farewell.
Farewell, my friends, time rolls along,
Nor waits for mortals, care or bliss;
I leave you here and travel on,
Till I arrive where Jesus is.
Farewell, my brethren in the Lord,
To you I'm bound in cords of love;
Yet we believe his gracious word,
That soon we all shall meet above.
Farewell, old soldiers of the cross,
You've struggled long and hard for heaven;
You've counted all things here but dross;
Fight on, the crown shall soon be given.
Farewell, ye blooming sons of God,
Sore conflicts yet await for you:
Yet dauntless keep the heavenly road,
Till Canaan's happy land you view.
Fight on, fight on, fight on,
The crown shall soon be given.
Farewell, poor careless sinners too,
It grieves my heart to leave you here;
Eternal sorrows wait for you;
Oh turn and find salvation near.
Oh turn, oh turn, oh turn,
And find salvation near.